"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient" (Romans 1:28)
"Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." (2Timothy 3:8)
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." (Titus 1:16)
A Reprobate Mind is a defective, debased, corrupted, depraved, unapproved, or rejected mind. Mind that has lost a sense of value and worth, lack character because of its rejection of common sense and reasoning.
One becomes reprobate when knowing the truth, willfully goes against the very truth. Their lack the will to live by the truth and live in denial of what they have tested and proven to be true; because there is nothing one can tell them that they do not know already, they are given to a reprobate mind.
The consequences of this state is that they do things that are unnatural and unthinkable, they resist the way of God or natural laws, they spend a their life time explaining why the wrongs they kept living in is right (justifying their ungodly life), they are debased in their reasoning, and renounce the way they once know and believed to be the right way. Because their reasoning is corrupted already, their views about the word of God leave everyone in surprises.
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